Burnaby Now July 12 2017

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Castor Fernandez takes up his weapon – er, his paintbrush – for an art battle during the Park’s Edge Paint Off, a highlight of the second annual Deer Lake Summer Arts Festival on Saturday. The July 8 festival, hosted by the Burnaby Arts Council, was a great success, according to organizers. More than 500 people stopped by to check out the event – double the number of visitors at last year’s festival. For more on the festival, including photos, turn to page 8. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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City won’t back plans for new art gallery Mayor says Burnaby already does a great deal for the arts, but decision leaves arts council ‘devastated’ Tereza Verenca

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The City of Burnaby cares about art, according to Mayor Derek Corrigan – despite the city rejecting calls for a new gallery for more than three decades.

At Monday night’s meeting, council passed a staff report that does not support a new exhibition space as requested by the Burnaby Arts Council. The organization has long argued the city’s current gallery facilities – the arts

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council’s Deer Lake Gallery and the city-run Burnaby Art Gallery at Ceperley House – are too small and not in a SkyTrain-friendly location. But having an artistic community isn’t just about building four walls –

it’s about making it accessible to people in their everyday lives, Corrigan said. He pointed to the free annual Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concert in Deer Lake Park, the city’s eco-sculpture program, the Beresford Art Walk planned

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for Metrotown and the Burnaby Village Museum. “Burnaby Village Museum is taxpayer-supported and it’s free. It is one of the top 10 attractions in the Lower Mainland.That is something to be very proud of. It shows by doing things

like that we fulfil a very important role – we create a museum that is accessible to everyone,” said the mayor. “It’s very important for us to continue to do that, to ensure art isn’t put simply into a building where people Continued on page 10

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